Sedal

Sedal Festival is one of the main festival celebrated in Pondicherry. It is usually conducted to mean self-imposed physical torture undertaken by devotees by piercing small silver hooks and spears in their body or tongues to fulfill some vow. It is said that about 100 needles are pierced over their body. The devotees then go for a procession after a bath clad in turmeric strained clothes.

Updated on 2nd July, 2005